Coherent excitation transfer via the dark-state channel in a bionic system

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue MARCH, 2012, Pages

  Dong, Hui ^a   Xu, Da Zhi ^a   Huang, Jin Feng ^a   Sun, Chang Pu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dark state; Excitation transfer; Light harvesting; Quantum coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871855546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2012.2     Document Type: Article

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